West Africa scam crackdown removes 3.7M accounts, flags $11M in crypto

An organized campaign against scam operations in West Africa has resulted in the arrest of 28 people in Ghana and Nigeria. The Justice Department said that there is about $11 million in cryptocurrencies that can possibly be seized. The more significant move, however, was the efforts toward shutting down the recipients’ infrastructure and financial operations. The campaign called “Joint Disruption Week” started on October 6 at the head office of the UK’s National Crime Agency in London. The investigators joined forces with such companies as Meta, Google, Microsoft, OpenAI, Binance, Coinbase, and many others.